South Florida has always been a prime location for out-of-town conferences and conventions. But recently there's a growing number of local organizations putting together these events from their own backyard.

Miami-based conferences are pulling in major corporate sponsors and attendees from all over the world and speakers from the White House, Google and Facebook.

Ninety percent of Latinos said that they are friends with people of a different race, according to new poll from Reuters and Ipsos, making them much more likely than the rest of America to reach across racial lines to make friends.